Airport

(http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2010/rockman/rockman_checklist.pdf)

Artist:  Alexis Rockman

Title:   Airport

Media: adhering objects to a digital photograph and then applying layers of synthetic resin to create an impenetrable block

Date: 1997

Denotation-

        An airport with a white airplane and several birds as the background. 

        A big engine at the center of the picture with a couple of blooding birds inside it 

Connotation-

        It shows the human society's impact to its co-habitating species. It reminds us that our modern society actually has a lot of damages to the natural world that we have never realized. 

Big idea-

        human society and natural species. 

When I saw those birds collided with the jet engine, I feel really painful. The engine looks like a big eye and I thought it may mean that we should pay more attention to the world. 

Another piece by Rockman:

The Conversation, 2001

(http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2010/rockman/rockman_checklist.pdf)